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"The essays collected here constitute a selection of the papers delivered on the subject of "Historicising Beckett" at the annual conference of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures (IASIL), which was held at the National University of Ireland, Galway in July 2004"--Page [21].

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362 pages ; 24 cm.

Contents:

Introduction/Avant-proposAnnouncement/AnnoncePART 1: "Historicising Beckett"Sean KENNEDY: Introduction to "Historicising Beckett"Sinead MOONEY: Kicking against the Thermolaters: Beckett's "Recent Irish Poetry"David A. HATCH: Beckett in Transition: Three Dialogues, Little Magazines, and Post-War Parisian Aesthetic DebateRina KIM: Severing Connections with Ireland: Women and the Irish Free State in Beckett's Writing Patrick BIXBY: Watt Kind of Man are you? Beckettian Anthropology, Cultural Authenticity, and Irish IdentityMark QUIGLEY: Unnaming the Subject: Samuel Beckett and Colonial AlterityJames MCNAUGHTON: Beckett, German Fascism, and History: The Futility of ProtestSean KENNEDY: Cultural Memory in Mercier and Camier: The Fate of Noel LemassPART 2: Performing BeckettTakeshi KAWASHIMA: The Resistance of Seeing in Beckett's Drama: Self-Perception and Becoming ImperceptibleAntje DIEDRICH: Performance as Rehearsal: George Tabori's Staging of Beckett's Waiting for Godot and EndgameJulie CAMPBELL: The Entrapment of the Female Body in Beckett's Plays in Relation to Jung's Third Tavistock LectureDimitri SOENEN : La resistance des restes : l'appartenance `mediatique' des `Shorter Plays'Angela MOORJANI: Directing or In-Directing Beckett: Or What Is Wrong with Catastrophe's Director?Christina ADAMOU: What Where Revisited: Answering the QuestionJuliette Taylor: "Pidgin Bullskritt": The Performance of France in Beckett's TrilogyThomas MANSELL: Different Music: Beckett's Theatrical ConductCatherine LAWS: Beckett and Kurtag. PART 3: The Child in Beckett's WorkDaniela CASELLI: IntroductionStephen THOMSON: "It's not my Fault Sir": The Child, Presence and Stage Space in Beckett's TheatreDaniela CASELLI: Tiny Little Things in Beckett's CompanyJonathan BIGNELL: How to Watch Television? Pedagogy and Paedocracy in Beckett's Television PlaysPART 4: Free SpaceDiane LUESCHER-MORATA: "It is not me". From a refusal to speak of oneself to X, "paradigm of human kind" Spyridoula ATHANASOPOULOU-KYPRIOU: Not I and/or the Art of LivingGeoff HAMILTON: Annihilating all that's made. Beckett's Molloy and The Pastoral TraditionMatthew James VECHINSKI: "I could not cling to it": Potentiality in L'Innommable and The Unnamable - A Dual-Language StudyDavyd MELNYK: Never Been Properly Jung.